Sonny Landreth
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 3, 2004

Broadcast on KBOO radio.
FM signal directed to the Edirol R9 > SD card > PC.
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1) Rider (Levee Town)
2) Native Stepson (South Of I-10)
3) Broken Hearted Road (Levee Town)
4) Hell At Home (The Road We're On)
5) Gemini Blues (The Road We're On)
6)
7) Blues Attack (Blues Attack)
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9) Congo Square (South Of I-10)

I checked all his recordings, but can't find track 6 and 8. I'm sorry.
Anyone else who could help?



�� probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also one of the most advanced.� �Eric Clapton

Known for much of the past decade as the brilliant slide guitarist with John Hiatt and the Goners,
Sonny Landreth has come into his own. On his latest release, �The Road We�re On,� Landreth returned
to his bluesy roots in the Louisiana swamps and earned a 2004 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary
Blues Recording. For all his explorations on past albums and projects, which have led him into Cajun
and Zydeco, progressive jazz and the realm of singer-songwriters, the great slide guitarist and songwriter
keeps returning home, to the place where American popular music began.

�The blues,� says Landreth, �is the core of it all.�

Some might say Landreth was fated to be a slide guitar wizard, born as he was in Canton, Miss.,
the birthplace of legendary slide guitarist Elmore James. In fact, when he was five, his family
moved to Lafayette, La., where Landreth grew up surrounded by Cajun music and its lifestyle. Landreth
picked up trumpet at 10, guitar in his teens, moved with his roots-rock band to Colorado for a while where
he met and played with the young fusion-blues guitarist, Robben Ford, and began to develop his unique
slide-and-chording guitar technique.

Returning to Louisiana, Landreth worked with several noted Cajun bands, including Zachary Richard,
Beausoleil, Red Beans & Rice. In 1979, he became the first white musician hired into the band of the
late Zydeco �King,� Clifton Chenier.

In the years that followed, Landreth continued to sharpen his extraordinary guitar chops, while building
a reputation as a singer and songwriter. He has done session work for rock guitar giant Leslie West,
harmonica legend Junior Wells, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, country superstar dolly Parton, British
bluesman John Mayall and singer-songwriters Kenny Loggins, Marshall Crenshaw and John Hiatt.

On his latest release, Landreth revisits the roots that have shaped his life and sound. �It was like going
back to the fountain to do �The Road We�re On,�� he says. �Playing this music is as natural for me as
going to the crawfish festival. It�s something I was born to do.�





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